Dresden And The Heavy Bombers
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Dresden And The Heavy Bombers
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Author : Frank Musgrove
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Dresden And The Heavy Bombers written by Frank Musgrove and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.
This is the story of a young man's entry into the war in 1941 and culminates in his flying on the bombing raid to Dresden in February 1945. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command but neither is it a breast-beating avowal of guilt. These memoirs take the form of a basic narrative of the author's RAF career and pay particular attention to fear, morale and, as the author explains, the myth of leadership. Several raids are described in detail and illustrate the variety of experience, problems and dangers involved in such hazardous warfare. So, nearly 60 years after his dramatic experiences, how does he view the bombing of factories and cities and the inevitable grave moral issues that have slowly and insidiously crept up on him ? The answer will surprise many younger and older readers.
The Dresden Firebombing
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Author : Tony Joel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-01-20
The Dresden Firebombing written by Tony Joel and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-20 with History categories.
The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre.Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and the motivation for the attack have become fierce historical battlegrounds, as German feelings of victimhood complete with those of guilt and loss. The Dresden bombing was used by East Germany as a propaganda tool, and has been re-appropriated by the neo-Nazi far right. Meanwhile the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche- the city's sumptuous eighteenth-century church destroyed in the raid-became central to German identity, while in London, a statue of the Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, has attracted protests. In this book, Tony Joel focuses on the historical battle to re-appropriate Dresden, and on how World War II continues to shape British and German identity today.
Dresden
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Author : Frederick Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Harper
Release Date : 2004-02-03
Dresden written by Frederick Taylor and has been published by Harper this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-03 with History categories.
The bombing began shortly after 10:00 P.M. on February 13, 1945. In the fifteen hours that followed, 1,100 American and British heavy bombers dropped more than 4,500 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices, leaving the ancient city of Dresden -- "the Florence of the Elbe" -- in flaming ruins and claiming the lives of thousands of its citizens. Twelve weeks later the German surrender was in hand, signaling the end of World War II. Yet today the bombing of Dresden is embedded in our collective consciousness not as the toppling blow to Nazi Germany but as one of history's cruelest wartime atrocities, a vicious and militarily unjustifiable act of vengeful retribution against a peaceful, beautiful, defenseless city somehow removed from the war-making machinery that had otherwise consumed all of Germany. What really happened at Dresden -- both the facts of the events themselves and the reasons behind the remarkable legacy of propaganda that has left us in the dark about those events for nearly sixty years -- is the subject of Frederick Taylor's ground breaking study. After careful research into British, American, and German archives (including recently discovered documents, now available after decades of communist censorship) and interviews with both bombers and survivors, Taylor -- a bilingual scholar, translator, and writer -- has created the most complete portrait ever assembled of the city, its people, and those involved in its fate. Many of his findings require a revelatory shift in how we understand these events. For instance, he demonstrates that the numbers of dead -- frequently cited in excess of 100,000 -- were greatly exaggerated, for propaganda purposes, by Josef Goebbels (Taylor estimates the actual death toll at between 25,000 and 40,000) charges that Allied pilots overhead shot down German civilians as they fled toward safety were patently false contrary to popular belief, Dresden was a city of considerable military importance, both as a transportation hub and a major producer of armaments and military provisions. Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 is the first truly informed and fair-minded history of the bombing that lives in infamy. Frederick Taylor's book, a responsible and long-overdue corrective to a sixty-year-long legacy of misinformation masquerading as fact, will be remembered for generations both as a work of enduring scholarship and as a moving, compassionate narrative of a human tragedy of historic significance.
Firestorm
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Author : Marshall De Bruhl
language : en
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Release Date : 2006
Firestorm written by Marshall De Bruhl and has been published by Random House Digital, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
De Bruhl re-creates the drama and horror of the 1945 Dresden bombings and offers the most cogent, clear-eyed appraisal yet of the tactics, weapons, strategy, and rationale for the controversial attack.
The Ethics Of Bombing Dresden
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Author : Lt Col Raymond H. Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
The Ethics Of Bombing Dresden written by Lt Col Raymond H. Wilcox and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
This study describes the events, doctrine, and technical developments of World War II (WWII) that led to the destruction by area bombing of the city of Dresden and the deaths of 135,000 of its citizens. Prior to our entry into WWII our bombing strategy was to employ large numbers of high altitude bombers with heavy defensive firepower, flying in formation, using precision daylight bombardment. This ethical bombing technique was observed early on in WWII, but at some point the ethic changed. Why? Was it a change in the ethics of the commander or country, or was it due to a technological push through the development of on-board radar? This analysis will show that although no specific order or directive specified the destruction of Dresden, those in charge had tacitly endorsed it. History shows us that because of this change, the face of war in Europe also changed. To this day, the firestorm of Dresden remains one of the deadliest and ethically most problematic raids of WWII.
Dear Dresden
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Author : Michael W. Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-12
Dear Dresden written by Michael W. Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-12 with categories.
In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Dresden, Germany. The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed over 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) of the city center. An estimated 22,700 to 25,000 people were killed.Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden was a cultural landmark of little or no military significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and not proportionate to the commensurate military gains.Never forget.
The Bombing Of Dresden Reconsidered
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Author : Melden E. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Bombing Of Dresden Reconsidered written by Melden E. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Art categories.
Firestorm
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Author : Paul Addison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Firestorm written by Paul Addison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
On the night of February 13, 1945, British planes bombed the city of Dresden in Germany, causing devastating fires that obliterated the historic city center and killed thousands of people. The next day U.S. bombers returned for another attack. In all, m
The Destruction Of Dresden
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Author : David John Cawdell Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Destruction Of Dresden written by David John Cawdell Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Dresden (Germany) categories.
135.000 dræbtes ved 7 døgns konventionel bombning af Dresden. Atombomben mod Hiroshima dræbte ca. 71.000.
Dresden
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Author : Victor Gregg
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-02-13
Dresden written by Victor Gregg and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor Gregg remained above ground throughout the firebombing. This is his true eyewitness account of that week in February 1945. Already a seasoned soldier with the Rifle Brigade, Gregg joined the 10th Parachute Regiment in 1944. He was captured at Arnhem where he volunteered to be sent to a work camp rather than become another faceless number in the huge POW camps. With two failed escape attempts under his belt, Gregg was eventually caught sabotaging a factory and sent to Dresden for execution. Before Gregg could be executed, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Dresden in four air raids over two days in February 1945. The resulting firestorm destroyed six square miles of the city centre. 25,000 people, mostly civilians, were estimated to have been killed. Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral questions of the Second World War. In Gregg's first-hand narrative, personal and punchy, he describes the trauma and carnage of the Dresden bombing. After the raid, he spent five days helping to recover a city of innocent civilians, thousands of whom had died in the fire storm, trapped underground in human ovens. As order was restored, his life was once more in danger and he escaped to the east, spending the last weeks of the war with the Russians.